Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-22
MERE MENTION.


Work will soon commence on the
Main street wharf.
The tug PoHtkotsky was anchored
J in the harbor to-day.
The new wharf will be completed
about the LIST OF June.
OLYMPIA will be lighted by electric
ity within few weeks.
The single mills average product
4 is about 1900 per day.
The steamer Biz took large boom
of logs from the Westside this week.
OIL probabilities says the present
cold wave WIS preslgeI by the north
erly flight of wild geese.
Work begins on the Of Chambers
brick next week. The stone will be
brought from Mud Bay.
Rev. Mr.. Brown, the new Presiding
Elder, of the Methodist church, is
now a resident of this city.
One hundred, and fifty cases of as
sorted goods was received at the New
York Cash Store, this week.
Rev. J. w. Beaver, late of Moscow,
!. T. will preach in the Baptist Church,
Sunday, morning and evening.
The MasOns are about to let the
contract for clearing their cemetery,
of small timber and underground.
Mr.. Brown, the barber, held num-
Der which drew a $50 prize in the
Louisiana Lottery at its last drawing.
EARLY Spring vegetables - onions,
lettuce, rhubarb, etc.-have begun to
appear in the procession of appetisers.
Read Squires' new advertisements
in this issue. His teas are of superior
quality, as q trial will amply demon
strate.
A committee of citizens went to
Tenino to-day to escort the newly APP
pointed Governor, Eugene Semple, to
The Capital.
Mr.. Edmund Sylvester, the original
proprietor of the site of Olympia, lies
in a critical condition from cancer on
the tongue, at Seattle.
Street Commissioner Cullen has
just cleared away an ugly neste CT
stumps from Fifth street, between
Main and Washington.
The estate of John Safred, deceased,
as appraised by Messrs. Hardness,
Leighton and N. Pattison, amounts
to 81, 100 in cash value.
Gov. Semple will arrive this evening
hnd probably qualify as Executive to-
morrow. His commission was received
ht Vancouver, on the 10Th.
Talcott has patented combination
door-plate and gong which seems to en-
brace all the essential and some new
points of utility in such contrivances.
Mr.. C. B. Mann is removing his
warehouse from his old site, adjoining
Tacoma Hall, to the rear of his dwell
Ting, corner of Franklin and Fifth
streets.
Col. Frank Shaw, of Vancouver and
Dolph Hannah, of Tacoma, two Demo
cratic warehouses, are in town to wit
ness the Inauguration of Democratic
3 Governor.
The week has been about equally
{ divided between alterations of sun
l thine and cloud, which always consti-
tute the remnants of a Western
Winter"
The steamer Messenger now leaves for
Tacoma on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, and for Skookum Bay on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in
the afternoon.
Mr.. Miller, the Fourth street shoe
maker, has hung out his sign in front
of the building lately removed to the
east end of Long bridge, next door to
the Alsace Hotel.
The Mayfower proposition for club
bling will remain open only a week
longer. Until May LIST the STANDARD
and the Mayfower will be sent to any
address for 81 so.
The Rev. Mr.. Nicholson of Old Ia
coma will officiate in St. Johns church,
Sunday, as an exchange of pulpits for
that day has been arranged between
Rev's Gill and Nicholson.
Now that General Sprague is on his
home stretch, and will arrive here
shortly, the people of Olympia may
expect soon to know something in re-
gard to our local railroad situation.
Advertisements still encroach some
what upon our reading space. The
liberal patronage of the STANDARD, at
home and abroad, is a gratifying evil
dence of its usefulness as an advertis-
ing medium.
At the late session of Presbytery,
held at Seattle, Gen. R. H. Milroy was
appointed Commissioner to the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
church, which conve mes at Omaha, on
the 10Th of May.
The force of Olympia lady compost
tors has been increased, this week, by
the arrival of Miss Minnie Brown,
late of Vancouver, who contemplates
making this city her home during the
coming Summer.
Miss Annie Ellis, who accompanied
her fafhor N Con To pc;oco eovoro1